And the Hey everyone. Welcome back to National Park After Dark. We got Trail Tales coming in hot.

How are you today, Cassie? I am great. It feels like I haven't talked to you in a long time.

That's untrue.

We've been recording all day. This has been like a day where we've been

working from morning until and we're not done after this either so we've just

been sitting on on Zoom pretty much all day too.

All day long. Well do you want to hear a story for me or do you want to tell one first?

I would love to hear one I think. Okay. All right so my first story is

titled Manifestation and an angel and I made a note here that I removed the

personal intro from the email but she was very very nice with

saying thank you and sending love to us in the show but the email after that starts, I too lost a partner suddenly.

I don't really want to talk about the details of how it happened because it was traumatic

and honestly just too sad.

I do, however, want to share one of my favorite memories with Brandon and

then the in-your-face Can't Deny It sign he sent me. Today would have been his

33rd birthday and it feels nice to reflect on happy times with him.

We lived in a small cabin on 13 acres of woods in Georgia.

We didn't have the internet or much indoor entertainment other than a few movies and board games.

So when we weren't working at a super lame job or working on our car that we were rebuilding and

the motorcycles he was fixing for himself, we were walking around the woods. The woods were behind a few

neighborhoods and there were several abandoned houses. Sadly they were dilapidated and

used as dumping grounds. I'm talking trash mounds, filling the houses, driveways, and yards. The woods were barely

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